Olympic Dream

We have been watching a lot of the Olympics this year, and we were sad this past weekend to see it come to an end.  Our kids have been playing some of the Olympic games in the back yard (diving and swimming in the pool).  I decided it would be fun to have our own Olympics.  It was so fun!   The first ever Denning Family Olympics are sure to become a tradition!  We started the night with the lighting and passing of the torch.  Each of us got to run a lap with the torch and wave our flag.

The first event was an obstacle course.  The winner had to beat the fastest time.  This was part of the obstacle course (including that ever so tiny tunnel you see to the left of Chase which I am sooo glad the video camera ran out of juice and did not catch me completely biffing it down the slide and squeezing through the tunnel).  Let's just say the adults all walked away with injuries from this first event.

Second event:  the discus (a.k.a. Frisbee).  Actually harder than you think!

Third event was the balance beam.  You had to cross the beam without falling in the fastest time.

Next up was Olympic horseshoes (notice the size of those things).  Daddy was favored to win this event but possible injuries from the obstacle course made him choke to the pressure.

And the final event Olympic UNO where Sadi who ALWAYS wins was the favorite but had some tough hands.

When all the events were completed we had an official award ceremony including podiums where the flag was raised behind the gold medalist and their favorite song was played over the stereo.

The final medal count: 

Obstacle Course:   Gold-Chase, Silver-Kelsey, Bronze-Sadi

Discus:  Gold-Matt, Silver-Chase, Bronze-Kelsey

Balance Beam:   Gold-Sadi,  Silver-Karen, Bronze-Chase

Horse Shoes:   Gold-Kelsey, Silver-Karen, Bronze-Chase

UNO:   Gold-Chase, Silver-Matt, Bronze-Sadi

The top three winners got endorsements after the ceremony,

and the most decorated Olympian also received a cereal box deal where his picture will be on this family cereal.  This boy deserved it, he medal ed in every competition!

We had a closing ceremony where we extinguished the flame, had fireworks (pop-its), and watched instant replay of the games (video).  There had been some dispute about cheating(possible to much juicy juice) in the obstacle course which was confirmed after viewing the video but no medals were revoked.  It was an amazing night!  So proud of all my winners!